U.S. patent application number 10/203851 was filed with the patent office on 2003-10-02 for extended order communication system based on internet and method thereof.
Invention is credited to Park, Yong-Nam.
Application Number | 20030187692 10/203851 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 36295183 |
Filed Date | 2003-10-02 |
United States Patent
Application |
20030187692 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Park, Yong-Nam |
October 2, 2003 |
Extended order communication system based on internet and method
thereof
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide the electronic
prescription system based on the internet and implementing method
thereof which may rapidly and accurately transmit the prescription
of patient treatment issued by doctor to pharmacist of pharmacy,
and connect to the advertising system of pharmaceutical company. To
accomplish the said objects, the present invention is characterised
in that it comprises: the pharmacy database system (14); the group
server (18) of the membership pharmaceutical; the Web server (10);
the terminal computer group (KIOSK) for payment of medical
examination, issuing and transmitting the electronic prescription
according to the result of the medical treatment to the
patient-designated pharmacy or the pharmacy in the close vicinity
to residence over Internet after the medical treatment of patient;
the pharmacy terminal; and the patient database system (16). By
noticing that the request and management of such data is
implemented in the server on the internet, and in authentication
giving access admission, it is hard to identify patient himself, or
in the medical characteristics, doctor and patient always has to
meet each other, medical circles play a roll as authentication
registration authority (RA) so as to give confirmation to patient
identification, and the authenticated patient may have grant right
about the designation of new family doctor on the Internet
later.
Inventors: |
Park, Yong-Nam; (Seoul,
KR) |
Correspondence
Address: |
Mathews Collins
Shepherd & McKay
Suite 306
100 Thanet Circle
Princeton
NJ
08540
US
|
Family ID: |
36295183 |
Appl. No.: |
10/203851 |
Filed: |
October 28, 2002 |
PCT Filed: |
February 14, 2001 |
PCT NO: |
PCT/KR01/00221 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
705/2 |
Current CPC
Class: |
G16H 10/60 20180101;
G16H 20/10 20180101; G06Q 10/10 20130101; G16H 70/40 20180101; G16H
40/67 20180101; G16H 80/00 20180101 |
Class at
Publication: |
705/2 |
International
Class: |
G06F 017/60 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Feb 15, 2000 |
KR |
2000/6997 |
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. The electronic prescription system based on the Internet
comprising: the drugstore database system (DB) (14) storing the
geographical information and inventory information of the
membership drugstore; the group server (18) of the membership
pharmaceutical company supplying the said drugstore with medicines
and administering their inventory information as each drugstore
unit; the Web server (10) constituting the Internet site for
receipt and transmission of the electronic prescription on the
Internet based on the said drugstore database system (DB) and the
said group server of the membership pharmaceutical company; the
self-service terminal group for patient (13-2) issuing and
transmitting the paper and electronic prescription according to the
result of the medical treatment to the patient-authorizing
drugstore or the drugstore in the close vicinity to residence over
the Internet, wherein doctor may input the prescription record to
the patient treatment database (13-1) In the hospital after the
treatment of patient and then the patient may reflect personal
intentions about the selection of drugstore and may use the patient
authentication, i.e. patient ID etc., in order to protect the
persona( disease history of patient; the drugstore terminal group
(12) confirming whether the electronic prescription with the
specific drugstore registered number of the patient is transmitted
in the visit of the patient to the drugstore, making up and
medicating the medicine according to the prescription information
if the said prescription information is received, and transmitting
the said medication information to the Web server; and the patient
database (DB) (16) collecting the medication information of the
said-drugstore terminal and the medical treatment information of
hospital terminal group, and storing the general information of
each patient.
2. The electronic prescription system as defined in claim 1,
wherein the said Web server (10) further includes the group server
(18) of the pharmaceutical company for collecting the electronic
prescription information of doctor through the hospital terminal
and the medication information by the drugstore terminal, grasping
the inventory information, communicating with delivery information
processing system (21) so that mutual electronic order and product
campaign are available by using the grasped drug inventory
information of drugstore, and performing inventory control,
electronic ordering and electronic payment.
3. The electronic prescription system as defined in claim 1 and 2,
wherein the said Web server further includes the advertising
statistical sever (19) which performs the electronic and the
documentary (within the prescription) custom advertisement and
custom medical information including the custom instructional
information of taking medicine to an assigned doctor and an
assigned pharmacist when writing out the electronic prescription
and confirming the said prescription at the drugstore terminal, and
to a patient when receiving and transmitting the prescription at
the self-service terminal or the system assigned by patient
according to the disease and drugs code of the prescription.
4. The electronic prescription system as defined in claim 1 wherein
the said Web server further includes the statistics database system
(DB) (17) which grasps the general information about the national
health care, medical information and preparation information of the
medicine etc. using the disease information of all patients, the
preparation and medication information of membership drugstores,
and the medical treatment information of membership hospitals
through the electronic prescription according to the role
separation of pharmacist and doctor.
5. A method of implementing the electronic prescription based on
the Internet in performing the role separation of pharmacist and
doctor comprising the steps of: doctor inputting the electronic
prescriptional data for patient according to the result of medical
examination and treatment of patient visiting hospital into
terminal computer; doctor recording and updating the said
electronic prescriptional data to the main patient database system
(DB); patient paying the medical fee and assigning the said
prescription to the drugstore using the digital key of pharmacist
and the digital key of patent after indentifying
self-authentication, and confirming whether the pre-settlement will
be performed; performing the pre-settlement using the settlement
system when the patient approves the pre-settlement, printing out
whether the settlement is performed, transmitting the electronic
prescriptional data combined with payment information for instant
preparation in the drugstore to the corresponding drugstore
terminal, or transmitting only prescriptional data for
post-settlement condition through the internet; performing the
process of personal identifying authentication and the process of
confirming the medication information through the connection of the
internet when the corresponding patient visits the assigned
drugstore and demands the medical preparation according to the
prescriptional data, and then performing the preparation and
medication and the charge settlement according to whether the
pre-settlement is performed, and recording the medicational
information of the corresponding patient to the patient database
system (DB) through the internet.
6. A method of implementing the electronic prescription as defined
in claim 5, wherein the said method further includes the step of
implementing the custom advertisement according to the
prescriptional drug code and disease code to the assigned doctor
and pharmacist when the doctor input the electronic prescription
using the hospital terminal and the pharmacist confirms the
electronic prescription using the drugstore terminal in the
connection of the patient database system, and automatically
transferring any one of cash or cyber-point to the account, which
is pre-contracted between advertiser, prescription transmitting
agent, and hospital-drugstore, as the compensation of consuming the
said custom advertisement.
7. A method of constituting the treatment and medical affair record
database as defined in claim 1 or 5, wherein the said method
includes the mutual authentication between patient and doctor, the
said authentication comprises: a step which doctor and pharmacist
treats and interviews a patient; a step connecting to the database
server after the treatment and receiving the registration authority
(doctor) authentication; a step determining whether the patient
certification database of the corresponding treated patient should
be registered after the registration authority authentication in
the previous step; a step which doctor makes and registers the
patient certificate including personal information and digital
signature of the corresponding patient by digital key for
registration as a roll of registration authority if the treated
patient is not registered in the previous step; a step which
patient makes singular or multiple selection and authenticates
family doctor who has authority reading and adding the treatment
and medical affair record (including image data); a step which
doctor registers the treatment and medical affair record as family
doctor and, if the patient is a registered patient, updates the
existing database with the treatment data of the corresponding
time; and a step which family doctor authenticates authority in
which cooperative doctor may read the patient record within the
range defined in the medical law in case that the cooperative
treatment may be needed with the other doctor.
8. A database constituting system for the treatment and medical
affair record as defined in claim 7, wherein the said system
includes: terminal (7-11-13) installed in hospital and drugstore;
server (7-10) which provides the said hospital and drugstore
terminals with the authentication information of as the
registration authority, receives and treats the first treatment and
medical affair record or update treatment record inputted from each
authenticated hospital and drugstore terminal; patient
certification database system (7-16) which stores and updates the
treatment record of each patient handled by the said server; and
pharmacist database system (7-18) and doctor database system (7-17)
which are connected with the said server and authenticates the
qualification of pharmacist and doctor.
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] the medical information technology, messenger transmission
technology, network technology, electronic authentication
technology and internet related technology.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The present invention relates to the constitution of the
role separation system of pharmacist and doctor in which doctor
executes only medical treatment of patient and issues only
prescription, and pharmacist executes only preparation and
medication, and relates to, in case of giving effect to such a
separation system, the electronic prescription system based on the
Internet and implementing method thereof which may transmit the
treatment prescription of patient issued by doctor to pharmacist of
his custom pharmacy rapidly and exactly and may also make use of
all medical information as a basis of statistical data of national
health by making the said information into database.
[0003] Due to the execution of the role separation of pharmacist
and doctor, doctor got to issue only prescription about medicine
and pharmacist got to prepare and medicate according to the
prescription about the medicine. This execution of pharmacist and
doctor has an actually urgent problem to solve the standardizing
problem of prescription document, document storing problem,
geometrical and time limit problem according to the transmission of
prescription, exact transmission problem of prescription contents,
and management problem.
[0004] In order to execute the role separation of pharmacist and
doctor successfully, the procedure of medical treatment and
preparation should be easier and more convenient for doctor and
pharmacist than that of conventional medical treatment and
preparation. Thus, if the execution is performed with paper type
prescription, rapidity, accuracy and reliability of medication
according to the result of treatment may not be guaranteed, mutual
and effective medical treatment and remedy between patient, doctor
and pharmacist cannot be implemented.
[0005] Therefore, in the execution of pharmacist and doctor, it is
required to accommodate the sudden change of social environment,
and Internet is placed as a representative which may lead such
change of social environment in the information age. Since Internet
enables the task to be handled with real time, Internet may provide
with rapidity and accuracy of the transmission procedure of
prescription which emerges as big problem in the role separation of
pharmacist and doctor. The constitution of the role separation
system of pharmacist and doctor based on the Internet is required
and thus making electronic document become also required, and such
making electronic document enables doctor to identify patient and
issue authentication and enables patient to authenticate for doctor
to read his medical record later.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
[0006] An object of the present invention is to provide the
electronic prescription system based on the Internet and
implementing method thereof which may rapidly and accurately
transmit the treatment prescription of patient issued by doctor to
pharmacist of pharmacy, and also make use of all the medical
information related to the medical treatment and medication as a
basis of statistical data of the national health by making the said
information into database, in case of executing the role separation
of pharmacist and doctor, in which doctor implements only treatment
of patient and issue only prescription, and pharmacist implements
only preparation and medication according to the prescription of
doctor.
[0007] Another object of the invention is to provide the electronic
prescription system based on the Internet and its implementing
method which may rationally supply the source of funds required to
constitute the electronic prescription system based on the
Internet.
[0008] And, another object of the invention is to provide the
electronic prescription system based on the Internet and its
implementing method which has the function to properly reconcile
concerns between doctor and pharmacist in the execution of the role
separation of pharmacist and doctor.
[0009] And, another object of the invention is to provide the
electronic prescription system based on the Internet and its
implementing method which enables to return profit directly or
indirectly to doctor and pharmacist by consuming the advertisement
naturally when doctor prescribes and pharmacist confirms the
prescription according to the execution of the role separation of
pharmacist and doctor, and also enables the advertiser to send the
custom advertisement to the target consumer, so that satisfies both
sides.
[0010] To accomplish the said objects, the present invention is
characterized in that it comprises: pharmacy database system
storing the geographical and inventory information of the
membership pharmacy; group server of the membership pharmaceutical
company supplying the said pharmacy with medicines and
administering their inventory information as each pharmacy unit;
Web server constituting the Internet site for issue and receipt of
the electronic prescription on the Internet based on the
information of the said pharmacy database system and the said group
server of the pharmaceutical company; hospital terminal group
issuing and transmitting the electronic prescription according to
the result of the medical treatment to the patient-designating
pharmacy or the pharmacy in the close vicinity to residence over
Internet after the medical treatment of patient; the pharmacy
terminal group confirming whether the electronic prescription with
the corresponding pharmacy registered own number of patient is
transmitted in the visit of the patient to the pharmacy, preparing
and medicating the medicine according to the prescription order if
the said prescription order is received, and transmitting the said
medication information to the Web server; and the patient database
system collecting the medication information of the said pharmacy
terminal and the medical treatment information of hospital terminal
group, and storing the general information of each patient.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0011] FIG. 1 is the block diagram illustrating the system of the
present invention.
[0012] FIG. 2 is the flow chart illustrating total implementing
process of the electronic prescription system according to the
present invention.
[0013] FIG. 3 is the flow chart illustrating the subroutine of
prescription of doctor in the electronic prescription system
according to the present invention.
[0014] FIG. 4 is the flow chart illustrating the subroutine of
designation of custom pharmacy by patient in the electronic
prescription system according to the present invention.
[0015] FIG. 5 is the flow chart illustrating the subroutine of
designation of medication by pharmacist in the electronic
prescription system according to the present invention.
[0016] FIG. 6 is the flow chart illustrating the subroutine of
preparation and medication according to pre-settlement in the
system of the present invention.
[0017] FIG. 7 is the block diagram of the system of the present
invention.
[0018] FIG. 8 is the flow chart illustrating the procedure of
making medical treatment and affair record into database according
to the present invention.
[0019] FIG. 9 Is the flow chart illustrating the procedure of the
medical treatment using the medical treatment and affair record,
and of updating treatment information according to the present
invention.
[0020] FIG. 10 is the flow chart illustrating the access to the
medical treatment and affair record of patient.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0021] Referring to the attached drawing, the present invention may
be explained more particularly as below.
[0022] FIG. 1 is the block diagram illustrating the system of the
present invention. As referred herein, the system of the invention
includes Web server (10) constituting and administering homepage
site for electronic prescription ordering on the Internet.
[0023] The electronic prescription ordering site administered by
the Web site (10) may be connected with all the pharmacy terminals
(12) and all the hospital terminals (13) of whole country, and due
to the management of system, this site may endow these pharmacy and
hospital terminals with specific identification numbers so as to
actually access the electronic prescription ordering site with
these numbers. These numbers can be email addresses for executing
the role separation of pharmacist and doctor.
[0024] The said Web server (10) has pharmacy database (14) storing
the geographical information and inventory information of each
membership pharmacy through the country, a membership
pharmaceutical company group server (18) for delivering medical
supplies to the said membership pharmacies and managing the
inventory information of each pharmacy as a unit, patient database
(16) collecting the medication information of the said pharmacy
terminal groups and treatment information of the said hospital
terminal group so as to store information of each patent.
[0025] Also the said Web servers (10) can be connected with
hospital database (15) for storing the information of each
membership hospital of the country and statistical database (17)
for managing and storing general information such as the decease
information and medication information as personal, regional and
age group, the said hospital database (15) can also include a
health center and clinic as well as hospital.
[0026] Besides, the said Web server (10) may include an advertising
server (19) for advertising custom advertisements in issuing
electronic prescription by a doctor and confirming the prescription
by a pharmacist and this advertising server may include
advertisement database (20).
[0027] The said group server (18) of membership pharmaceutical
company is constructed to be able to advertise its advertisements
through the advertising server (19) and also this server can
construct medical supply information processing system (21) to use
as its own medical supply managing information with each pharmacy
sharing the information related to compounding medicine and
medication.
[0028] Said electronic prescription and medication process based on
the system of the invention follows as below.
[0029] When doctor treats a visiting patient and then decides the
suitable medication, doctor inputs the medication information of
the corresponding patient connecting the electronic prescription
site through hospital terminal (13). The input process of these
medication information includes the followings: First, a doctor
enters the keywords about a medical component and a kind of
medicine decided by the doctor. Then a number of medical supplies
related to the input condition will be shown as menu screen on the
computer monitor.
[0030] A plenty of medicine on the computer monitor would be
restricted by the membership pharmaceutical company's medical
supplies and there is no information about medicine of the
non-membership pharmaceutical company. It can be a method to
attract many membership pharmaceutical companies early, by
separating between company participating and not participating in
construction of electronic prescription system of the
invention.
[0031] When doctor makes up an electronic prescription and chooses
a specific medicine among the plenty of medicines displayed on menu
screen, advertisement of the pharmaceutical company which produce
the corresponding medicine may be displayed. The commission fee of
watching this advertisement is transferred automatically into the
doctor's designated account. The forms of medicine advertisements
may include line advertisements, flash advertisements, and
full-page advertisements using various advertisement
techniques.
[0032] After the determination of medication by doctor, patient
determines his or her customary pharmacy or the nearest one of his
or her residence Then doctor clicks the pharmacy database (14)
through Web server (10) and checks the registration of membership
of the designated pharmacy, transmits the electronic prescription
through the unique number, and notifies the result to the patient.
Unless the patient designates specific pharmacy, with operating the
geographical information system served by Web server (10), the
doctor searches the nearest membership pharmacy of the patient's,
residence transmits the electronic prescription through the
identification number of the corresponding pharmacy, and notifies
the result to the patient.
[0033] Before issuing the electronic prescription, if there is a
choice of customary pharmacy for Internet transmitting an
electronic prescription from hospital terminal (13) and the input
of membership pharmacy identification number which can be a kind of
email, Web server (10) searches the pharmaceutical company group
server (18) or pharmacy database (14) and checks the inventory
status of medicine prescribed to the designated pharmacy. In this
process the inventory of medicine for preparing leads to the next
stage, transmitting of an electronic prescription. Otherwise,
another pharmacy should be found in order to prepare medicine and
medicate by the electronic prescription through the request of
re-choice.
[0034] In the process of issuing this electronic prescription, the
paying in advance with credit card or cash is requested to the
pharmacy with the electronic prescription. This makes it possible
to respond promptly to medication need by the electronic
prescription of a patient visiting pharmacy.
[0035] A doctor's treatment and electronic prescription result is
transmitted and stored on the patient database system (16). This
can be used as a reference in prescribing and checking the
patient's past treatment. The record of treatment and medication of
all patients is stored on the hospital database system (15) and is
used as a statistical material.
[0036] The electronic prescription of a doctor about the visiting
patient is transmitted to the pharmacy terminal (12), which is
assigned by a patient or the nearest one from patient's place. When
the patient visiting to the pharmacy gives his or her information,
the pharmacist connects the pharmacy terminal (12) to the Internet
site, prepares medicine, and medicates by the patient's electronic
prescription.
[0037] In the case of settlement in advance in issuing electronic
prescription after treatment, the prescription information is
immediately transmitted to the designated pharmacy for preparing
medicine and medication. The pharmacy prepares the medicine in
advance of a patients visiting to medicate.
[0038] Before medicating, the pharmacist has the duty, of
identifying the patient accurately. When the content of the
electronic prescription on pharmacy terminal (12) is considered as
improper one, the right to substitutable prescription is given to
the pharmacist. In this case, the content of the substitutable
prescription must be uploaded on Web server (10).
[0039] When preparing medicine and medication at the membership
pharmacy, the pre-settlement of commission leads to charge medicine
fee to the medical insurance cooperation. Otherwise, the pharmacy
gets fee by credit card or cash. The settlement on compounding
medicine and medicating by the role separation of pharmacist and
doctor can have management systemization through the cooperative
integration of paying system among the credit card cooperation,
medical insurance cooperation, doctor's association, and related
organization.
[0040] The execution of the role separation of pharmacist and
doctor by the system of the present invention can get the total
information about the public health and disease information,
medical information, and medicine-compounding information, etc. To
utilize for the government's health policy to people through
storing all information about a national health care, membership
pharmacy's compounding medicine and medication, and treatment of
membership hospital on statistic database (17) on Web server.
[0041] The said Web server (10) may be connected to the
pharmaceutical company group server (18), the group of sponsoring
the system construction, This makes it possible to get the
information of medicine consumption status and inventory status by
the unit of each pharmacy. This information is connected with the
membership pharmaceutical company's material information processing
system (21) to manage the inventory and make medical supplies to
pharmacies more suitable.
[0042] FIG. 2 is the flow chart of explanation of the total
implementing process of electronic prescription system according to
the invention.
[0043] As referred herein, when a patient visits and requests
treatment, the doctor treats, identifies the patient, and makes up
an electronic order. The electronic prescription is recorded on the
patient database through web, updated, transmitted to the pharmacy
which is designated or determined by the patient, and the
pre-settlement is checked. If the patient guarantees the
pre-settlement, the pre-settlement is executed through operation of
paying system using direct paying card, pre-paid card, and credit
card and the immediate medicine compounding order is transmitted to
the pharmacy terminal.
[0044] After the process of identifying the patient visiting the
pharmacy and checking the information of medication, the medicine
compounding and medication are carried out by pre-settlement, and
the money paying is carried out according to the pre-settlement way
or post-settlement way. The medication information is recorded on
the patient database through Web.
[0045] FIG. 3 is the flow of treatment subroutine in process of
operating electronic prescription system.
[0046] After the hospital terminal's access to the Internet
electronic prescription site in order to make an electronic
prescription after treatment, with choosing the electronic
prescription page and inputting the keyword related to the name of
a pharmaceutical company or medication information, the list of
sponsoring pharmaceutical company participating in electric order
system construction and the medicine which the sponsoring company
makes reveal. If the medicine recorded on the prescription is the
product of non-membership pharmaceutical company not participating
in electronic prescription system construction, electronic
prescription system is impossibly is marked, the order content is
output By the patient or in other ways, the prescription is
transmitted to the designated pharmacy.
[0047] When the medicine by treatment is the product of membership
pharmaceutical company participating in electronic prescription
system construction, the product appears on the minor of hospital
terminal or when every medicine of membership pharmaceutical
company participating in electronic prescription construction
related to the treatment appears on the monitor screen. The click
of the specific medical product to medicate leads to the input of
the product data into the treatment data. At the same time, the
advertisement screen of the manufacturer, the company of the
medicine is output. In other words, the menu of medicine product
choice can also perform the role of the keyword for accessing the
medicine advertisement page.
[0048] In the pharmaceutical company's position, this advertisement
screen output makes the effect of the advertisement increasing
owing to the high concentration on the advertisement to the
consumer, a doctor.
[0049] The paying to the advertisement consumption returns to the
doctor who decides the advertised medicine as the treatment
medicine.
[0050] Especially, as the commercial has a type of customized
advertisement of the potential customers, cost of the advertisement
will be high. Though the doctor does not recognize profit making
process directly while watching a monitor, he or she will have
concern about income therefrom.
[0051] The side effect of the input of the prescription are
accumulation of the database and time saving of patient's waiting
for prescription which gives the doctor sense of obligation as a
medical person and income from the advertisement will be used as a
compensation fund at the cost of labor of the doctor.
[0052] The types of advertisement include banner located at the
bottom of the monitor, pop-up image upon clicking, and flash image.
The income of the doctor will be transferred to his or her account
automatically in the form of cash or cyber point.
[0053] FIG. 4 shows the subroutine of the determination of the
principal pharmacy in executing electronic prescription system.
[0054] After treatment, doctors input the prescription and
electronic prescription system determines the favored pharmacy.
When the patient has his or her favored pharmacy electronic
prescription system inspects the several components: is the
pharmacy registered at on electronic prescription system
association; does the pharmacy have the prescribed medicines.
[0055] If the conditions are fulfilled, the electronic prescription
system sends the prescription to the pharmacy (or the email
address). Otherwise the electronic prescription system sends the
prescription to the nearest pharmacy and after notifying patient
about the fact the program will be terminated.
[0056] FIG. 5 explains the medication subroutine of electronic
prescription system.
[0057] When the patient requests the prescription to the
pharmacist, the pharmacist downloads the prescription inputted by
the doctor after connecting the electronic prescription system Web
site. After finishing the identification of the patient pharmacist
make prescription to the patient in identifying process resident ID
or order number can be used.
[0058] During the downloading, commercials will be appeared on the
screen as at the case of doctors. The content of substitution
prescription of the pharmacist will be transferred to the Web
server. Cost of watching advertisement will be automatically
transferred to the doctor's account.
[0059] In case that, in the confirmation of prescription order,
alternative medicine is regarded to be more effective than the
prescribed medicine, or the prescribed medicine is regarded not to
be suitable, pharmacist can be implement alternative prescription
according to his own judgment.
[0060] After the completion of alternative prescription, pharmacist
may transmit the above situation to the Web server through the
Internet site, and finish the task.
[0061] FIG. 6 is the flow chart illustrating the procedure of
preparation and medication in case of the implementation of
pre-settlement in the hospital.
[0062] Firstly, when the pre-settlement coincides with the issuing
of prescription of doctor, the pre-settlement preparation mail may
be sent to the terminal of the designated pharmacy. Then,
pharmacist gets to open the email and confirm the prescription
order, this time the advertisement of pharmaceutical company may be
appeared in the same way of the time of issuing prescription by
doctor. And the compensation (cash or cyber point) over the
consumption of custom advertisement (viewing) may be transferred to
the account contracted automatically.
[0063] Likewise, in case that, in the confirmation of prescription
order, alternative medicine is regarded to be more effective than
the prescribed medicine, or the prescribed medicine is regarded not
to be suitable, pharmacist can be implement alternative
prescription according to his own judgment.
[0064] After the completion of alternative prescription, pharmacist
may transmit the above situation to the Web server through the
Internet site. In pre-settlement, when patient visits after the
completion of preparation in advance according to the electronic
prescription, pharmacist refers his identity then implements
medication, thereafter the task is finished.
[0065] All the prescription information on the Internet may be
provided patient database system, statistical database system,
pharmacy database system, hospital database system, and furthermore
group server of pharmaceutical company, which are connected with
the Web server, and may be used as statistical data.
[0066] FIG. 7 is the block diagram illustrating the constituting
system of the medical treatment and affair record database based on
the Internet.
[0067] As referred herein, the system of the present invention may
comprises the server (7-10) constituting and managing the homepage
for electronic prescription ordering on the Internet.
[0068] The Internet site managed by this server (7-10) may be
connected with all the hospital terminal (7-11, 12) and pharmacy
terminal (7-13) of whole country, and then whenever needed, the
treatment information of registered patient may be obtained form
the said server (7-10) and the patient registration and renewal
information of the treatment record may be updated.
[0069] The said server (7-10) may be connected with the patient
database (7-16) storing the first or new medical treatment and
affair record of specific patient transmitted from the above all
pharmacy terminals (7-13) or hospital terminals (7-11, 12).
[0070] And, the said server (7-10) may be connected with medical
association server (7-14) and pharmaceutical association server
(7-15), and then tile registered doctor and pharmacist information
provided from these associations may be downloaded, and such
downloaded new pharmacist and doctor registration numbers are
stored in each pharmacist database (7-18) and doctor database
(7-17).
[0071] When patient (7-19) visits hospital and requests the medical
treatment of doctor (7-20), doctor treats the patient and
prescribes according to the result of the treatment.
[0072] The medication about the prescription may be implemented in
the pharmacy according to the role separation of pharmacist and
doctor.
[0073] At this time, since doctor has a duty to provide patient
with the treatment record, in the request of the patient, doctor
has to surely write out and provide with the medical treatment and
affair record, and may transmit the patient record written down by
doctor to the server (7-10) using hospital terminal (7-11) under
the agreement of patient.
[0074] Before such transmission of the treatment record by doctor,
the authentication over patient enables doctor to play a role of a
registration authority.
[0075] The authentication of a patient is very important process to
maintain genuineness and reliability of patient database.
[0076] Server (7-10) may be connected with medical association
server (7-14) and pharmaceutical association server (7-15), and
downloads the registered doctor and pharmacist information from
each association and stores in each pharmacist database (7-18) and
doctor database (7-17) of the server, and whenever each of doctor
(7-20, 21) of hospital terminal (7-11, 12) or pharmacist (7-22) of
pharmacy terminal (7-13) requests authentication as the
registration authority, the server refers and authenticate.
[0077] Therefore, when the corresponding treatment doctor requests
the authentication of registration authority in order to register
the treatment record about the specific patient from hospital
terminal (7-11), this authentication is referred and approved, and
then doctor transmits the said record to server (7-10).
[0078] When the treatment record is inputted from hospital terminal
(7-11), server (7-10) stores the record in patient database
(7-16).
[0079] Patient database (7-16) is stored and managed individually,
and after the first patient database is created, all the next
treatment record or medication record is accumulatively recorded to
the account of the membership patient.
[0080] Therefore, even though patient changes into other hospital
or family doctor, new family doctor may read the past treatment
record recorded to database of the patient using the corresponding
hospital terminal (7-12) so that may avoid repeated treatment and
examination.
[0081] Likewise, at this time doctor transmits the result of
patient so that the disease history of patient may be administered
continuously and systematically.
[0082] And, it is also allowed to refer to the past disease history
or treatment result etc. of the visited patient using pharmacy
terminal (7-13) in pharmacy, at this time the medication
information is written out and uploaded by pharmacist of as
registration authority.
[0083] Since the upload of the medication information by pharmacist
and the treatment record by doctor burdens with duty or provides
with certain economic value, early accomplishment of constituting
aim of database of each patient may be promoted by compensation.
And it may be used as statistic data of the public health.
[0084] FIG. 8 is the flow chart illustrating the procedure of
making patient database. As referred herein, when patient selects
the family doctor and makes reservation through Internet etc., then
visits hospital, the medical treatment is executed by the
corresponding reserved family doctor. The doctor has to write out
and provide the medical treatment and affair record to patient, but
it is difficult for all patients to administer the record
systematically. Therefore, the family doctor refers to whether the
patient whom the doctor treats is registered to patient database,
so that if the patient is registered, the doctor transmits the
treatment record to patient database through the server, and if the
patient is unregistered, doctor confirms whether the patient
approves the registration to the patient database.
[0085] If the patient refuses to register to patient database,
doctor writes out and issues the medical treatment and affair
record and then his task is finished.
[0086] On the contrary, if the patient admits the registration to
patient database, doctor connects hospital terminal to server
through Internet and input the doctor's ID so that he obtains the
authentication of as the registration authority, and then.
transmits personal data and treatment record of the corresponding
patient and creates and registers personal database to the
membership patient database.
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
[0087] The invention enables to return profit directly or
indirectly to doctor, pharmacist and patient by consuming the
advertisement naturally when doctor prescribes and pharmacist
confirms the prescription according to the execution of the role
separation of pharmacist and doctor, and also enables the
advertiser to send the custom advertisement to the target consumer,
so that satisfies both sides.
[0088] In the execution of role separation of pharmacist and
doctor, since the prescription order issued by doctor may be
rapidly and accurately transmitted to pharmacist of pharmacy and
use as foundation of statistical data of the national health by
making all medical information related to the treatment and
medication into database, the present invention is required to the
active participation of hospital, pharmacy, patient and concerned
industry, that is pharmaceutical company. The rational supply of
funds is required to the constitution of the electronic
prescription ordering system based on the Internet due to the
benefit principle. Also, the invention has an effect on the
execution of the national medical action in hospital and pharmacy
by properly reconciling concerns between pharmacist, doctor and
patient. In the burden of cost, since the part of prescription
transmission may be eventually regarded as an effective sales
network of medicine, it is desirable to lead and participate the
cost burden of pharmaceutical company by use of pharmaceutical
advertisement.
[0089] Industrial Availability
[0090] In the pharmacy, the present invention may be preferred
positively because of the inconvenience of re-input of the paper
prescription for insurance claim and thus the burden of personnel
expense. The electronic purchasing method of medicine based on the
prescription information can be applied to the corresponding
industry. In case of patient, since patient can learn preparable
pharmacy in advance, it is expected to the reduction of arrival
time to the pharmacy and the reduction of wafting time after
receipt of the prescription, so that the invention may be utilized
positively and broadly.
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